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Quotes About Appearance

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house - the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dresses well. Pretends that dress is superficial—but knows that it isn't. 3.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
She's said to be very beautiful by people who ought to know.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her eyebrows had been plucked and then drawn on again at a more rakish angle, but the efforts of nature toward the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You always look so cool, she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all—and yet there's something in that voice of hers….
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward. Not
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Her good weight was 150 pounds, and 178 pounds was her top. Consequently, Brenda had three different sets of clothes hanging in her closet, labeled GOOD, MEDIUM and FAT AS A HOG.
~ Fannie Flagg
Look at me...and tell me what you see.' Norma put her pencil down and studied him. 'You look just like you always did, Macky, only older.' 'How much older?' 'You look... oh, I don't know, Macky, you look the same to me as you always did. I don't know what you look like. Go look for yourself in the mirror.' 'I want an objective view. I see myself every day.' 'Well, I see you every day too. How am I supposed to know what you look like?
~ Fannie Flagg
I don't think she looks sixty, do you Nik?" "Are you kidding! She looks better than we do and we're only thirty-six.
~ Fern Michaels
in love with. Look at you. You look like you've been shellacked and
~ Fern Michaels
The plain man's house was palatial, even by the
~ Fern Michaels
But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ricordo bene il suo sguardo. Attraversa ancora la mia anima Come una scia di fuoco nella notte. Ricordo bene il suo sguardo. Il resto… Sì, il resto è solo una parvenza di vita.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Inutilmente parecemos grandes. Salvo nós nada pelo mundo fora Nos saúda a grandeza Nem sem querer nos serve.
~ Fernando Pessoa
El mundo exterior existe como un actor en un escenario: está allí pero es otra cosa.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I excuse you from having to appear in my idea of you.
~ Fernando Pessoa
O mundo exterior existe como um ator num palco: está lá mas é outra coisa.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to commit myself to the folly of looking at them. In any event and in all politeness -nothing would be further from me than to insult a guest- I deem the point you have made as unimportant because there is surely nothing in the old world to prevent a deceitful kangaroo from shaving the fur from her legs, assuming she is a woman?
~ Flann O'Brien
I like his eyes, she observed, They don't look like they see what he's looking at but they keep on looking.
~ Flannery O'Connor
There were two round photographs of an old man and woman with collapsed mouths and another picture of a man whose eyebrows dashed out of two bushes of hair and clashed in a heap on the bridge of his nose; the rest of his face stuck out like a bare cliff to fall from.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Beneath beautiful appearances I search out ugly depths, and beneath ignoble surfaces I probe for the hidden mines of devotion and virtue. It's a relatively benign mania, which enables you to see something new in a place where you would not have expected to find it.
~ Flaubert Gustave
It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
~ Marion Jones